Tag: Islam

How the hijab has grown into a fashion industry Faegheh Shirazi, University of Texas at Austin Nike, the well-known U.S. sportswear company, recently introduced a sports...

Are converts to Islam more likely to become extremists? Matthew Francis, Lancaster University and Kim Knott, Lancaster University The process of conversion to any religion is...

In the past few days, the German, Dutch and Swedish authorities have cancelled public rallies for their Turkish citizens on the grounds that they...

Contemporary terrorism is a very difficult proposition to define as scholars, experts and critics have offered no fewer than one hundred definitions. On a...

By Riaz Hassan, University of South Australia Over the last few months, several reports have indicated a significant number of Australians hold anti-Muslim attitudes. In September...

On Feb. 16, 2017, a bomb ripped through a crowd assembled at the tomb of a Sufi saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, in southeastern Pakistan....

YouTube has become the de-facto platform for video sharing. Hundreds and thousands of channels have come up on YouTube that are creating original content...

Post 9/11, Islamophobia started taking deeper roots and its echoes are reverberating throughout the world in different forms.  Recent attacks by the ISIS resulted...

What's missing in the teaching of Islam Kishwar Rizvi, Yale University There has been much misinformation about Islam. Reports in Western media tend to perpetuate stereotypes...

STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI - “Religion is normally inherited among Christians, Jews and Muslims. It is, therefore, usually not viewed as a choice. I abandoned my religion...